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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DISPROVED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poet's Biography
First Line: People tell me I must do
Last Line: Keeps on growing through his hair.
Subject(s): Baldness; Boys; Fathers; Growth
First Line: People tell me I must do
Last Line: Keeps on growing through his hair.
Subject(s): Baldness; Boys; Fathers; Growth
People tell me I must do
All the growing that I can;
For they say I'll soon be through—
I won't grow when I'm a man.
That is why I'm fed so much
Nasty stuff to make me grow,
Tapioca, squash and such;
But I don't believe it's so!
Daddy's old. He won't be fed
Things for which he doesn't care.
Yet I notice that his head
Keeps on growing through his hair.
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